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Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles by mikewarot on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @12:58AM (#35257007)
If I understand how Large Language models work, they don't actually know about spelling.... they are given tokens that represent words, and can only infer things from the context of those tokens across terabytes of data that they're given.

Any rhyming done is an impressive result.

Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles by ben0x539 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:06AM (#35257051)
I mean, English spelling certainly doesn't free you from the need to figure rhyming out from context.
Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles by chewxy on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @01:54AM (#35257323)
Well the nature of byte pair encoding has a side effect of encoding sounds as well. I briefly explored it here: https://youtu.be/fTDQUxha9qU?t=480
Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles by masakreTech on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:04AM (#35258126)
"they don't actually know about spelling.." - this shows a lot about your knowledge of Large Language models - go back to comment on the SVB topics.
Re:Bard is dreadful at solving rhyming word puzzles by ramblerman on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @08:38AM (#35260099)
It is amazing, but somewhat explicable as an emergent effect.

Dont forget that the model has seen all the poems and raps on the internet. It built some latent space where certain words always cluster together in the context of poems, and in which location.

In this case it really has the best database available to say, what next word would slot in nicely here - as that is precisely what it was trained to do.

It is amazing, but somewhat explicable as an emergent effect.

Dont forget that the model has seen all the poems and raps on the internet. It built some latent space where certain words always cluster together in the context of poems, and in which location.

In this case it really has the best database available to say, what next word would slot in nicely here - as that is precisely how it was trained.

I find it more amazing tbh that you can ask for a poem about something, and that it then sticks to the plot, makes references to the start etc than the actual rhyming.